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Simon Barnes: What can you buy for a million quid? The key that unlocks the horizon

A £1m investment is a small price to pay to help a super-reserve take wing

Simon Barnes

November 6 2016, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

ILLUSTRATION BY LARA HARWOOD

What can you get for a million quid these days? One per cent of Paul Pogba, Manchester United’s record signing, and he’s not done much for them yet. About half a per cent of a Gauguin painting or a small fraction of the Aurora Green diamond. You could get 25% of a nice house in Kensington or five bottles of 1801 cognac. Or you could buy the horizon and fill all the bits in between with glory and beauty and life.

Lowestoft is not the richest or the prettiest town in this country. It’s rather an odd place, I always think. Its life is the sea and always has been, and yet everything in the town seems to deny this. Lowestoft turns its back on…

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